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Rich Web Experience 2010 Trip Report

The
Rich
Web Experience 2010 concluded earlier this week in Fort
Lauderdale. In
a typical No Fluff
Just Stuff
fashion, it was truly a rich experience starting from the location
(hotel, city, and weather),
food, content, speakers, 90-minute sessions, schwag, and many other
items. There were about 350 attendees with topics ranging from HTML5,
CSS3, NodeJS, GWT, iPad /
iPhone / Android development, Grails, Git, Hudson, and pretty
much all over the landscape. I
gave three sessions on:

Java EE 6 = Less
Code + More
Power

Java EE 6 Toolshow

Using
Contexts and Dependency
Injection in the Java EE 6 Ecosystem

The first
session
explained the three themes of Java EE 6 (light-weight, extensibility,
and ease-of-use), explained newly introduced and updated specifications
in the platform, and finally the modular, hybrid OSGi/Java EE host,
embeddable, extensible, and high-availability nature of GlassFish. The
attendance was light but audience was interactive.

The
second session was a no-slides session and used NetBeans
and Eclipse
to
demonstrate the following Java EE 6 features:

The
third session on CDI was a revision of my JavaOne session with a lot
more context and code samples added. The talk explained CDI key
concepts like type-safe dependency injection, Qualifiers, Stereotypes,
Producer/Disposer, Alternative, Interceptor, Decorators, Scopes, CDI
tooling, and other topics.

On
a
personal front, I totally enjoyed coming from a 40 degrees weather in
San Jose to 70 degrees in Ft Lauderdale and that too with hotel right
on the beach. I had couple of great runs by the Atlantic Ocean and a
good walk along the
beach.

Thursday
had 2 hours dedicated for beach activity but I had to leave to catch my
flight to Washington DC :( The
dinner, lunch, and breakfast as part of the conference was healthy with
a good mix of salads + carbs + proteins. The lemon tea + honey allowed
me to deliver three 90 minute sessions in one day. And lastly enjoyed
catching up with Venkat, Matthew McCullough, Kohsuke, Ben Ellingson
and many other friends.

Here are some pictures:

And
the complete album:

Next
stop as part of No Fluff Just Stuff will be UberConf, Jul 12-16, 2011,
mark your dates!